More Than 100 Kashmiri Pandit Families Leave Kashmir After School Teacher Killing.

More than 100 Hindu families have fled Kashmir as panic spread after the killing of a Hindu school teacher in Kulgam, a community leader said on Wednesday.

In a report, Reuters quoted Avtar Krishan Bhatt, who is the president of a Hindu Kashmiri Pandit colony in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla, as saying that around half of the 300 families living in the area fled since Tuesday.

“They were terrified after yesterday’s killing. We will also leave by tomorrow as we are waiting for a government response,” he said. “We had asked the government to relocate us outside Kashmir,” he told.

Earlier the residents claimed that the police had sealed off a migrant colony area in Srinagar and Anantnag and stepped up security around places where Kashmiri Pandit government employees live.

The local administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on families fleeing, but the region’s top government official, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, last month assured Kashmiri Pandits that measures would be taken for their security.